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contrary to law or accepted morality — especially sexual morality- illicit drugs
- illicit trade
- Young Jose Trevino was the product of an illicit love affair between the elder Jose Trevino and a beautiful Negress.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- For this to succeed, Tita must agree to give up having an illicit child.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- Or didn't you have an illicit child?Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- It seemed an illicit way of arriving at information, and even had a vague analogy with listening at a key-hole.James, Henry -- The American
- Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.Martin Luther King Jr.
- He felt the illicit pleasure of a schoolboy playing truant.London, Jack -- Burning Daylight
- And there were three broad categories: those who were ignorant, those who disapproved, and those who would be hampered in an illicit life-style.Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
- Unorthodox cooking, illicit cooking.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- One may be the victim of an internal conflict between two illicit moods, yet nevertheless, as the law and the church see it, guilty of sin and crime.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- He got them both Cokes and looked at the couch to see if it looked illicit.Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
- "Many African immigrants are engaging in illicit activities such as drug dealing," the story read.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- Two sets of books is a tried and true and very traditional method of hiding illicit income.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- Over the years Puller had seen just about every type of illicit drug there was.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- The Maryland countryside, with its smugglers and spies and illicit operatives, is the last place John Fletcher wants to spend the night.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- It seemed an illicit way of arriving at information, and even had a vague analogy with listening at a key-hole.Henry James -- The American
- The waiter's comment has discomfited him, making his attraction to Moushumi feel mildly illicit.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- Besides that—way I figure it, this illicit love-making is the one game that you always lose at.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
illicit = contrary to law or accepted morality
illicit = contrary to law or accepted morality
illicit = contrary to law or accepted morality
illicitly = in violation of what is normal